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I'd look into converting it into a more liquid (spendable) form of bullion. I think that the liquidity of that will become more difficult and expensive as time goes by. IMO My reasoning behind this is, the best value for sterling is for the product it is, but in a faltering economy the lesser market there will be for it too. Perhaps advertise it as "perfect wedding gift" or something. Actually, in my opinion though, a silver bar would be the perfect wedding gift....

Dude, that makes no sense. Sterling is what, 92%? What's wrong with that in a faltering economy? Silver is silver...wait, are you talking easily-negotiable coins, rounds, SHTF scenario?

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"...Sterling is what, 92%? What's wrong with that in a faltering economy? Silver is silver..."

What's wrong with it is that 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% of sterling is not marked by weight. This means that folks can't know what a piece is worth without weighing it, must have it assayed to know if it's really "sterling" (92.5% silver), and then find a buyer who will certainly discount the purchase price because of the element of risk and the need to expend time and energy getting it assayed and sold &/or refined which is an additional expenditure of time and money.

Sterling is fine if you can get it cheap, but then IMO needs to as quickly as possible, to be converted to credible items of bullion that are marked with purity and weight...or 90% silver U.S. coins if living in the U.S. &/or 80% silver coins if living in Canada.

I'd look into converting it into a more liquid (spendable) form of bullion. I think that the liquidity of that will become more difficult and expensive as time goes by. IMO My reasoning behind this is, the best value for sterling is for the product it is, but in a faltering economy the lesser market there will be for it too. Perhaps advertise it as "perfect wedding gift" or something. Actually, in my opinion though, a silver bar would be the perfect wedding gift....

I'd get married today if bars were going to be wedding gifts.

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Actual weight vs. struck weight may be important to those who plan to trade it in large amounts to those who deal it. And then there are those who have junk silver for 'barter money' should the dollar ever collapse or in the event we're forced to use an implanted chip to buy the groceries. Whatever the circumstance, the barter value will be determined on the street and I'm sure the amount of wear of the coin will not matter to those receiving it. If you want it for that reason then you should buy 90% coins at the best value and appearence or wear wouldn't matter.